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	National Hockey Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ECAHA in turn originates from the Canadian Amateur Hockey League which originates from the first "professional" Ice Hockey league, the Amateur Hockey Association which was created in 1893.
		The National Hockey Association (1909- November 22, 1917) was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
		The NHA was a forerunner of the National Hockey League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Hockey_Association (131 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The National Hockey League, comprised of teams from the U.S. and Canada, is the major professional league in North America.
		Women’s ice hockey is governed by the IIHF under the same rules as those for men’s hockey, except that body checking is not allowed; body contact, unless it results from playing the puck, constitutes an infraction of the rules.
		Although early ice hockey games were played on the natural ice of frozen lakes and ponds, organized ice hockey today is generally played on rinks with a surface of man-made ice.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/hockey.html (1903 words)

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		Professional hockey in Quebec is long and very complex but in a brief, very brief history the first team was the Quebec Bulldogs who played in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association 1908-09, the Canadian Hockey Association 1909-10 and the National Hockey Association 1910-17.
		The team moved to the Eastern Amateur Hockey League as the Toledo Buckeyes during the 1949-50 season but returned to the IHL the following year and played in the league 1951-62.
		The Atlantic Coast Hockey League was a rough and tumble league that carried the torch for lower-league minor hockey in the eighties.
	www.angelfire.com /falcon/achl/history.htm (3365 words)

	National Hockey League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though hockey remained popular in Canada, the sport's popularity in the United States, especially in the American south, dwindled to the point where many considered hockey to be a minor sport compared with the American staples of baseball, basketball, and football, and in some cases, NASCAR stock car racing.
		In its final season (1916-17), the National Hockey Association was comprised of six teams: The Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the Toronto-based 228th Battalion.
		The National Hockey League also presents numerous trophies, in addition to the Stanley Cup for the overall playoff champion, as well as the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl for the Western Conference playoff champions and the Prince of Wales Trophy for the Eastern Conference playoff champions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Hockey_League (2497 words)

	Stanley Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was originally used as the trophy given out to the top amateur hockey team in Canada, decided by the acceptance of a challenge from another team by the Cup holders and trustees.
		A group of hockey fans from Edmonton announced in December 2004 plans to ask the trophy's trustees to make the Stanley Cup a challenge trophy once again due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout.
		In what was said to be the most anticipated hockey game of the time, the Montreal Victorias defeated the Winnipeg Victorias 6-5 on December 30, 1896.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Stanley_Cup (3890 words)

	Hockey Summary
		Until 1910, professionals and amateurs were allowed to play together on “mixed teams,” but this arrangement ended with the formation of the first “big league,” the National Hockey Association, in eastern Canada in 1910.
		The World Hockey Association was organized in Oct. 1972 and was dissolved after the 1978–1979 season when the NHL absorbed four of the teams.
		Hockey, once considered a cold-weather sport, has increased its fan base to the southern and western part of the United States.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0112673.html (579 words)

	Setting Your Collecting Goal: The Star Power of Pre-War Hockey Cards - PSA Library
		In a transaction that caused a stir across Canada, Taylor was signed in 1910 by the Renfrew Millionaires franchise, which was preparing to join the newly founded National Hockey Association in 1910.
		He was elected as a charter member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945, and he was also given the honor of turning the sod for the construction of the Hockey Hall of Fame building that opened in 1961.
		Following the demise of the Western Hockey League at the end of that season, he joined the expansion New York Rangers as coach and general manager (after the club's brass let Conn Smythe go because they were worried he hadn't assembled a sufficiently competitive roster).
	www.psacard.com /articles/article_view.chtml?artid=4354&universeid=314 (4991 words)

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		The rival World Hockey Association (WHA), launched in 1972, ceased operation in 1979; several of its 12 teams gained entry to the NHL.
		Hockey is one of the most highly spectated sports.
		The modern game originated in Canada the 1800's, and the first modern indoor hockey game was played in 1875.
	www.wesclin.k12.il.us /hockey.htm (280 words)

	The History of
		By 1885, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was created to become the first national hockey organization.
		It seems that British soldiers stationed in Eastern Canada in the 1850’s and 1860’s first played a rough version of it.
		The first recorded instance of a puck being used instead of a ball took place in 1860 during a game in Kingston Harbour, Ontario, Canada.
	web54.sd54.k12.il.us /schools/nerge/jnewell/history_of.htm (245 words)

	District 6
		The Ottawa and District Minor Hockey Association (ODMHA) dedicates itself to "promote and foster amateur hockey through fair play and maintain and increase interest in the game of hockey by ensuring that all organized amateur hockey is developed with the Branch in accordance to prescribed standards".
		OCMHA is one of the Minor Hockey Associations comprising District 6.
		Until the fall of 1972, minor hockey in the ODHA was administered by an appointed committee of the Executive.
	www.plcom.net /ocmha/odmha_district_6.htm (812 words)

	Bowie Hockey Club
		The league is part of the Southeastern Amateur Hockey Association (SEAHA) which is one of the recognized district organizations under USA Hockey.
		These teams play in a highly structured league environment, and play additional non-league games against local and out-of-state USA Hockey sanctioned teams.
		The Bowie Hockey Club is a USA Hockey registered Tier II program that fields competitive teams from the Mite to the Midget age group.
	www.bowiehockey.org /travel_program.html (123 words)

	Ghosts of The Past
		Phillips moved on after the Cup loss to Montreal and skated with the Ottawa Senators of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association for the 1907-08 campaign.
		Having played little hockey in the years 1909 through 1911, Phillips played a season of professional hockey in the 1911-12 season with the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
		Phillips, a winger who could play on both sides of the centerman, played hockey as a young lad in his hometown of Kenora, Ontario when it used to be called Rat Portage.
	www.sportznutz.com /nhl/ghostsofthepast/tommy_phillips.htm (596 words)

	About Hockey Canada
		B) A professional hockey player, upon application to the CHA shall be reinstated upon approval by the President of this Association.
		(A) An amateur hockey player is one who is not participating in organized professional hockey.
		A) An amateur hockey player is one who has not participated in organized professional hockey, or if a player has so participated, has been reinstated to amateur status;
	www.canadianhockey.ca /e/about/agm/2002 (774 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Stanley Cup
		The growth of professional hockey turned the Stanley Cup championship into a professional event by 1910, when the National Hockey Association (NHA), based in eastern Canada, had become the dominant league in the country.
		The Montréal Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) team, champion of the Amateur Hockey Association in 1893, was awarded the first Stanley Cup title.
		For the next decade the format of the Stanley Cup championship varied, but it always included the NHL champion playing against the champion of one or more other leagues—the PCHA, the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), and the Western Hockey League (WHL)—sometimes in a three-way challenge.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761585412___4/Stanley_Cup.html (452 words)

	Ontario Hockey Association
		The first Association actually dealing with the administration and development of the sport was the Ontario Hockey Association, organized on the 27th of November 1890.
		The Referee Executive Committee is responsible for overseeing the overall direction of the Ontario Hockey Association's officiating program and to ensure that policies with respect to officiating and administration of the officiating program, are adhered to and that they are consistent with CHA policy.
		In the beginning, the Ontario Hockey Association consisted of thirteen (l3) teams, 3 teams from Kingston, 6 teams from Toronto, 3 teams from Ottawa, and one team from Lindsay.
	www.ohahockey.org /history.htm (1707 words)

	National Hockey League All-Star Game
		The first All-Star game in hockey, however, predated the NHL, when the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association had an All-Star Game on January 2, 1908 in memory of Montreal Wanderers player Hod Stuart, who had drowned three months after the Wanderers won the Stanley Cup.
		The National Hockey League All-Star Game (French: Match des Étoiles de la Ligue Nationale de Hockey) is an exhibition hockey game that marks the midway point of the National Hockey League's regular season, with many of the star players playing against each other.
		The NHL All-Star Skills Competition and the Heroes of Hockey game were both introduced in the 41st All-Star game in 1990.
	www.toshare.info /en/NHL_All-Star_Game.htm (2468 words)

	Rauzulu's Street Hockey Area
		The Hockey Area is one of the largest at Rauzulus Street, and one of the oldest.
		A special section that reviews some of the previous hockey leagues that were the basis of the leagues today.
		National Hockey League (NHL) is the starting point for information on the site for the NHL.
	rauzulusstreet.com /hockey (442 words)

	A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ot
		Played in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association 1908-09, both the Canadian Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association 1909-10 and the National Hockey Association 1910-17.
		The Ottawa District Hockey Association is one of thirteen Branch Associations of the Canadian Hockey Association and one of three Ontario Branches.
		The Civics took the World Hockey Association franchise from Denver Spurs in the middle of the 1975-76 season.
	www.azhockey.com /Ot.htm (858 words)

	Major League Hockey Franchises
		The Quebec Bulldogs were one of the five founding franchises of the Amateur Hockey Association in 1886.
		The Ottawa Senators, then called the Ottawa Generals and later the Ottawa Silver Seven, were one of the five founding franchises of the Amateur Hockey Association in 1886.
		The Montreal Shamrocks, then called the Montreal Crystals, were one of the five founding franchises of the Amateur Hockey Association in 1886.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/hockeyf.html (430 words)

	Legends of Hockey - Historic Trophies - Arena Cup
		The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association was formed December 11, 1905, to effect a consolidation of clubs who previously had been members of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and the Federal Amateur Hockey League.
		Copyright 2005, Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum
		presented the newly-formed Association the “Arena Cup” which was to be awarded annually to the league champion.
	www.legendsofhockey.net /html/silver_splasharenacup.htm (127 words)

	A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ea
		As executive director of the NHL Players Association he organised the historic Team Canada-Soviet Union series of 1972 and together with the NHL created the Canada Cup in 1976.
		Teams from the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and the Federal Amateur Hockey League merged to form this league for the 1905-06 season.
		A divsion of the Central Hockey League from 1996-.
	www.azhockey.com /Ea.htm (2052 words)

	NHL Historical Trivia and Quizzes
		The first governing body of the sport was the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, formed on December 8th, 1886 in Montreal.
		The formation of the National Hockey Association in 1910 in eastern Canada marked the end of 'mixed teams' of professionals and amateurs.
		The World Hockey Association commenced in October 1972 but dissolved after the 1978-79 season when the NHL absorbed four of the teams.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizlistgold.cfm?cat=682 (605 words)

	Ghosts of The Past
		The Wanderers, playing in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, scored a perfect 10 wins in 10 games with Hern in the net during the 1906-07 campaign.
		Hern played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey Association on a team based in his hometown of St. Mary’s.
		But from the 1890s through 1911, Hern was able to distinguish himself as a premiere goaltender in many different levels of hockey.
	www.sportznutz.com /nhl/ghostsofthepast/riley_hern.htm (595 words)

	Hockey - The Early Days
		The National Hockey League was formed out of the National Hockey Association, mainly to rid the other owners of Eddie Livingston of the Toronto Blueshirts.
		The Regina franchise of the WCHL was moved to Portland and the league was renamed the Western Hockey League.
		In 1921-22 a third league was formed in the West, the Western Canada Hockey League, with teams in Edmonton, Calgary, Regina and Saskatoon.
	www.makojo.com /earlyhockey.html (4960 words)

	Keystone Aaa
		The ''MAAA'' were a ''professional''-style ice hockey team which played in the Amateur Hockey Association 1892-1898, the Canadian Amateur Hockey League 1898-1905 and the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association 1905-1908.
		Montreal Amateur Athletic Association is an athletic association located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
		They won the Stanley Cup in 1893, 1894, March 1902 and February 1903 and also won the Amateur Hockey Association in 1893 and 1894, won the Canadian Amateur Hockey League 1902 and won the Allan Cup in 1930.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/48/keystone-aaa.html (1010 words)

	Hockey : Youth
		Minor hockey association located in Ottawa Valley in eastern Ontario, Canada.
		Includes officers, coaches, managers, schedules, association information, league statistics, discipline reports, rules, forms, girls' program/tryouts, and rink locator.
		We provide the best ice hockey in the area.
	www.hockeysearch.info /directory/Leagues/Youth/Youth-13.html (169 words)

	Stanley Cup winners
		ECAHA -- Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (1907-1909)
		ECAHL -- Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League (1906)
		NHA -- National Hockey Association (1910-1917) future NHL
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Dugout/4128/02stanleycup.html (697 words)

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